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Definition of Dominican nuns

Dominican nuns
Dominican Do*min"i*can, a. [NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain.] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him. Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

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- The Dominican nuns were founded by Dominic even before he had established the friars. They are contemplatives in the cloistered life. The nuns celebrated...
- The Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary are a religious institute founded in 1880 in Calais, France, by Father Damien-Marie Saintourens, Mother Rose...
- institutes of nuns and sisters (the female equivalent of male monks or friars), each with its own charism or special character. Traditionally, nuns are members...
- be involved in various ministries. Nuns - The "Second Order" actually pre-dates the friars, as the Dominican nuns trace their founding to a monastery...
- Clement XI Agnese Segni (c. 1268–1317), Professed Religious of the Dominican Nuns (Italy) Beatified: 1532 by Pope Clement VII Canonized: 10 December 1726...
- founded. She sent her stepdaughter to the Dominican nuns at Töss Monastery. In Tösser Schwesternbuch (Lives of the Nuns of Töss), Agnes is presented as a wicked...
- OP (Margit in Hungarian; January 27, 1242 – January 18, 1270) was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She...
- Cistercian nuns (mid-13th century–early-mid 16th century); Dominican nuns (1575–1640) Tänikon Abbey (dissolved) at Aadorf (Aargau): Cistercian nuns Tedlingen...
- Additionally, there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns. The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) has four provinces of Friars...
- (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine...